One of the first things I tried was the little "Press C at the chime" trick at which point the drive repeatedly tried to read the disk for a minute or so, then booted into Mac OS with no other visible or audible output. I then ejected and re-inserted the disk tray, an was given a "Mac OS cannot read this disk" message after a few moments. I then tried a disk containing some printer drivers for Mac OS to see if there was an issue with the drive itself, but that read without issue or complaint. Once again, the disk I burnt is reading just fine on other machines, so that's clearly not where the problem lies could it be that it doesn't recognize the disk image's format? If so, I'm going to have to flash the bios, aren't I?
-----Original Message----- From: Risto Suominen <risto.suomi...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 09:53 To: jwesleycoo...@cox.net Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac 2012/3/28, jwesleycoo...@cox.net <jwesleycoo...@cox.net>: > Hey all, > > I'm having some trouble getting Debian Squeeze installed on my old original > iMac, which is one of the first "Bondi" blue ones ... from what your install > guide says, it should be supported; plus I know it's not the disks though, > because the OpenSuSE box I burnt them on can read them, and they were > verified > as 100% correct by K3B after I made the disks. I also tried getting the > disk to > boot from Open Firmware, but to no avail. > > Considering this, the only thing I can figure is that it must have something > to > do with the bios it has, especially after what I've read from the following > site > on getting OS-X (tiger) running on these antiques: > > http://lowendmac.com/macdan/md07/1207.html > > Anyway, the currently installed Mac OS 8.6's Apple System Profiler reports > the > CPU to be a 333MHz PowerMac G3, the Boot ROM Version as 3.0.f3, and the Mac > OS > ROM File Version as 1.6. So ... can someone tell me what I might do to get > Squeeze on here, if at all possible minus having to flash the firmware? > I believe it should be possible. Have you checked that the CD is readable in Mac OS? Have you tried to press C on boot up? What exactly happens? Do you see any text at all (besides that from OF)? Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cacyrqa0tpzsj24pxrm8tfwyooezxo4imkrsox9+dpnjqble...@mail.gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120328171220.qbjb30946.fed1rmfepo101.cox....@fed1rmimpo306.cox.net
